Новости за 08.12.2018

CHELSEA 2 MANCHESTER CITY 0 Dec 8 (Reuters) – Chelsea inflicted the first Premier League defeat of the season on champions Manchester City as goals from N’Golo Kante and David Luiz earned the home side an unlikely 2-0 victory on Saturday. Chelsea had been run ragged by a clearly superior City side until Luiz produced […]

CHELSEA 2 MANCHESTER CITY 0 Dec 8 (Reuters) – Chelsea inflicted the first Premier League defeat of the season on champions Manchester City as goals from N’Golo Kante and David Luiz earned the home side an unlikely 2-0 victory on Saturday. Chelsea had been run ragged by a clearly superior City side until Luiz produced […]

Nicosia on Saturday lit its Christmas tree, officially ushering the start of the festive season. The event kicked off at Phaneromeni Square with the scout band marching through Ledra Street accompanied by stilt walkers. It was followed by children’s choirs singing Christmas carols in the grounds of the town hall in a ceremony attended by […]

Lucas Torreira scored with a bicycle kick in the 82nd minute to earn Arsenal a 1-0 win over Huddersfield Town in a scrappy Premier League game on Saturday. The Uruguayan leapt to volley the ball from a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang pass across the face of goal, securing all three points for the Gunners who otherwise only distinguished themselves […]

Any discussion to include esports as a medal event at the Olympic Games is premature because of the way the gaming industry is structured, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Saturday. Esports, the competitive side of electronic gaming, boasts an estimated 250 million players worldwide in a growing market worth about a billion dollars a […]

The second leg of the Copa Libertadores final will finally be played in Madrid on Sunday but most of the focus remains on matters off the pitch. Boca Juniors’ latest attempt to challenge the validity of the match failed on Saturday when the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected an attempt to suspend the encounter. […]

Addressing issues of racial discrimination, gender inequality and sexuality, a different kind of exhibition is set to take place in Limassol next week centred on Kara Walker’s 17-minute shadow puppet video. Titled Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale and created in 2011, the short film is set in the plantation fields of the Antebellum […]

Liverpool maintained their best start to a season as Mo Salah, back at his dazzling best, scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 win at Bournemouth that took them, temporarily at least, to the top of the Premier League on Saturday. Salah set them on their way in the 25th minute, latching on to the rebound after […]

Missing fragments from one of Turkey‘s most striking ancient treasures, the haunting, wide-eyed “Gypsy Girl” mosaic, have returned home more than half a century after they were plundered and smuggled to the United States. On Saturday, the returned pieces went on display alongside the nearly 2,000-year-old mosaic of the girl, whose piercing gaze and dishevelled hair […]

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the new leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s Christian Democrats, sought to bind the party together after a divisive leadership battle by promoting a rival’s ally to a key post on Saturday. Delegates from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) elected Kramp-Karrenbauer, 56, on Friday to replace Merkel as party leader, a decision that moves her into pole […]

Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Saturday attended the funeral of two Turkish Cypriot youths who died in the floods in Kyrenia caused by heavy rain. In a statement, the party expressed its sincere condolences to the families of “our Turkish Cypriot compatriots who lost their lives”. Neophytou attended the funeral in Dhikimo of 21-year-old Tolga […]

Opposition party Diko on Saturday demanded the resignation or dismissal of Commerce Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis over the loss of the halloumi trademark in the UK. The party said the minister should assume responsibility for the debacle and resign or else the president “must sack the minister since the government, through its spokesman, has described the […]

The hand-pan, otherwise known as the hand-drum, is a rare musical instrument with soothing, serene sounds that musicians around the world are adopting, and will soon be introduced to Cypriot audiences too. Originating from Switzerland, Felix Rohner and Sabina Schårer founded the original hand-pan mecca, PANArt, and constructed a complex musical instrument called ‘the Hang’, […]

Cyprus is looking to mandate the use of credit card readers in businesses and service providers in an effort to tackle tax evasion, according to Finance Minister Harris Georgiades. During his budget speech on Friday, the minister mentioned three measures the government would advance as part of efforts to boost tax audit and fight evasion. […]

A moving, specially written dance performance to honour the lives of two young Paphos dancers that were tragically cut short when they both perished in a car accident in July will be held in the town on Sunday evening. ‘The Angels’, created by Agis Toursidis, the artistic director of the Romiosini dance troupe, will be […]

Adam Peaty says swimming’s world governing body must change or it could curtail his career. Olympic 100 metres breaststroke champion Peaty has previously outlined his ambition to continue to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, all being well. There are many considerations over the length of Peaty’s career, but the state of the sport under FINA is […]

A fire on Friday evening caused extensive damage to a flat in Paralimni, Famagusta, the fire service said. The service said it had received a call at around 10pm about a fire in a first-floor flat on Efterpis Street in the Kaparis area. Two engines were dispatched and firefighters put the blaze in the two-storey […]

  By Sybille de La Hamaide and Sudip Kar-Gupta French riot police clashed with “yellow vest” protesters in central Paris on Saturday during the latest wave of demonstrations against high living costs which have shaken President Emmanuel Macron’s authority. Protesters played a cat-and-mouse game with riot police, moving from the heavily guarded Champs Elysees area […]

  By Sybille de La Hamaide and Emmanuel Jarry French riot police fired tear gas and clashed with “yellow vest” protesters in central Paris on Saturday during the latest in a wave of demonstrations against the high cost of living that have shaken President Emmanuel Macron’s authority. Authorities said 575 people had been searched and […]

French riot police fired tear gas canisters at “yellow vest” protesters in central Paris on Saturday at the start of a planned demonstration against the high cost of living under President Emmanuel Macron. A police spokeswoman told reporters there were about 1,500 protesters on the Champs Elysees boulevard and authorities said 211 people had been […]

Massimiliano Allegri hailed Mario Mandzukic after the Croatian’s goal was enough to send Juventus 11 points clear in Serie A with a 1-0 Derby d’Italia victory over Inter Milan. Mandzukic was once again the man for the big occasion as he headed home the only goal in the 66th minute. “Mario is a great striker,” […]

Britain’s work and pensions minister Amber Rudd said Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal was the best option and the only plan available for leaving the European Union, although she admitted a plan B might be needed. Members of parliament look set to vote down May’s deal on Tuesday, a move which risks hurtling the […]

Where do you live? I currently live in Strovolos. Best childhood memory? When I think about childhood, the first thing comes to my mind is Tivoli, hanging out at the arcades for hours. Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? What food would you really turn your nose up to? That would be Rokoko, with […]

Police have charged five people for illegal employment and one for residing on the island without a permit as part of an operation that took place in Nicosia on Friday evening and early on Saturday. In a written statement, police said immigration officers carried out checks in nine establishments between 8.30pm and 1.30m. The officers […]

By David Andelman Nicole Barthelemy, the quiet, gracious owner of one of Paris’ premier cheese shops on the Rue de Grenelle, told me this week, with real panic in her eyes, “I have never in 47 years been so afraid as I am today.” And with good reason. Only a few blocks away, on the […]